{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases?ID=A2B2D1B6-427A-4177-BE47-D669BBCCE497", "Whip Clark on Extending ACA Tax Credits: \u201cWe Are Running Against the Clock\u201d", "2025-12-05", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Katherine M. Clark", "C001101", "katherineclark.house.gov", "clark", "https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "NEW YORK, NY \u2013 Today, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) joined CNN News Central to discuss Republicans\u2019 continued refusal to prevent massive premiums hikes. Below are excerpts from the conversation:\n\nOn the Administration\u2019s Venezuela Boat Strikes:\n\n\u201cWe need to get the truth to the American people because we have two critical concerns. One is for the security of our troops. And one is for the security of the American people. I have talked to members of the Intelligence Committee, including our Ranking Member, Jim Himes. He has seen lots of these sort of videos over his career and service. He was very upset by what he saw.\n\n\u201cWe should take the president up on what he said, that he\u2019s not against releasing this video. We need to know where we stand legally as a country. That is critical to keeping the American people safe.\n\n\u201cWhat we have seen from Secretary Hegseth \u2013 from this administration \u2013 is an unprecedented withdrawal of information. They are not sharing orders that they have always shared with Congress. They are not sharing their targeting and intelligence. And this is not a partisan matter. This is a matter of national security. It is a matter of our standing. It is a matter of protecting our troops. We need to have a full investigation and be as public and transparent as possible.\u201d\n\nOn the Republican Health Care Crisis:\n\n\u201cWe saw the president, around Thanksgiving, put forward a plan that was completely upended by Speaker Mike Johnson. And he said very recently that the House has \u201cno interest\u201d in pursuing that.\n\n...\n\n\u201cIf the Senate puts a vote up, we are going to do everything we can. We have been extending our hand of bipartisanship to the House [GOP] members since Donald Trump took office.\n\n\u201cWe know that health care is pivotal for the American people. They are seeing not only the draconian cuts that they made to Medicaid, to Medicare, to medical research in this country, but also these ACA tax credits that so many people depend on.\n\n...\n\n\u201cThis is up to the Republicans, and I don't know how they are not going home and hearing the same stories we are hearing. Moms filled with anxiety that they will not be able to treat their child\u2019s disease. Cancer survivors unable to continue those lifesaving check-ins that they need to make sure they remain cancer free. People afraid they\u2019re not going to be able to manage their diabetes.\n\n\u201cWe have a health care crisis that the Republicans have created, and we are running against the clock.\u201d\n\nOn Gerrymandered Map in Texas:\n\n\u201cListen, this mid-decade gerrymandering is so bad for the American people.\n\n\u201cYou can see from the election results on November 4th in special elections that the American people understand that they have been betrayed, that Republicans ran and said: \u2018We\u2019re going to lower your cost of living. We\u2019re going to help you find your footing in this economy.\u2019 And they have done everything to make things harder and more expensive.\n\n...\n\n\u201cWe are we are going to be meeting them in every single district. And what we are seeing, the results, it\u2019s the reason the Republicans are trying to choose their voters instead of having voters choose them. They\u2019re looking at the same polls we are. And when they are taking away people\u2019s health care in order to fund tax cuts for the very wealthy, when they are doing a tariff policy that is driving up the cost of living, instead of finding ways to make more affordable housing, to lower the cost of groceries and utility bills, they are going to pay an electoral price for that.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to remain right where we are as House Democrats, putting people first, saying to the American people: \u2018You deserve better. You deserve lower costs. You deserve a health care system that works for you. And, you deserve to get corruption out of government.\u2019\u201d\n\nTo view the complete conversation, click HERE.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases?ID=A2B2D1B6-427A-4177-BE47-D669BBCCE497"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.005236990749836, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}